Defn: Srubs and bushes upon which animals browse.
BROWSINGBrows"ing, n.
Defn: Browse; also, a place abounding with shrubs where animals maybrowse.Browsings for the deer. Howell.
BROWSPOTBrow"spot`, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A rounded organ between the eyes of the frog; the interocular gland.
BRUANGBru*ang", n. Etym: [Native name.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: The Malayan sun bear.
BRUCINE Bru"cine, n. Etym: [Cf. F. brucine, fr. James Bruce, a Scottish traveler.] (Chem.)
Defn: A poweful vegetable alkaloid, found, associated with strychnine, in the seeds of different species of Strychnos, especially in the Nux vomica. It is less powerful than strychnine. Called also brucia and brucina.
BRUCITE Bru"cite, n. Etym: [Named after Dr. A.Bruce of New York.] (Min.) (a) A white, pearly mineral, occurring thin and foliated, like talc, and also fibrous; a native magnesium hydrate. (b) The mineral chondrodite. [R.]
BRUCKELEDBruck"eled, a.
Defn: Wet and dirty; begrimed. [Obs. or Dial.] Herrick.
BRUHBruh, n. (Zoöl.) Etym: [Native name.]
Defn: The rhesus monkey. See Rhesus.
BRUINBru"in, n. Etym: [D. bruin brown. In the epic poem of "Reynard theFox" the bear is so called from his color. See Brown, a.]
Defn: A bear; — so called in popular tales and fables.
BRUISEBruise, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bruised; p. pr. & vb. n. Bruising.] Etym:[OE. brusen, brisen, brosen, bresen, AS. br or fr. OF. bruiser,bruisier, bruser, to break, shiver, perh. from OHG. brochison. Cf.Break, v. t.]
1. To injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a stone; to bruise an apple by letting it fall.
2. To break; as in a mortar; to bray, as minerals, roots, etc.; to crush. Nor bruise her flowerets with the armed hoofs. Shak.
Syn.— To pulverize; bray; triturate; pound; contuse.
BRUISEBruise, v. i.
Defn: To fight with the fists; to box.Bruising was considered a fine, manly, old English custom. Thackeray.
BRUISEBruise, n.
Defn: An injury to the flesh of animals, or to plants, fruit, etc., with a blunt or heavy instrument, or by collision with some other body; a contusion; as, a bruise on the head; bruises on fruit. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises. Isa. i. 6.
BRUISERBruis"er, n.
1. One who, or that which, bruises.
2. A boxer; a pugilist. R. Browning. Like a new bruiser on Broughtonic aand, Amid the lists our hero takes his stand. T. Warton.
3. A concave tool used in grinding lenses or the speculums of telescopes. Knight.
BRUISEWORTBruise"wort`, n.
Defn: A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey.
BRUIT Bruit, n. Etym: [OE. bruit, brut, noise, bruit, F. bruit, fr. LL. brugitus; cf. L. rugire to roar; perh. influenced by the source of E. bray to make a harsh noise, Armor. brud bruit.]
1. Report; rumor; fame. The bruit thereof will bring you many friends. Shak.
2. [French pron. (Med.)
Defn: An abnormal sound of several kinds, heard on auscultation.
BRUITBruit, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bruited; p. pr. & vb. n. Bruiting.]
Defn: To report; to noise abroad.I find thou art no less than fame hath bruited. Shak.
BRUMAIREBru`maire", n. Etym: [F., fr. L. bruma winter.]
Defn: The second month of the calendar adopted by the first French republic. It began thirty days after the autumnal equinox. See Vendemiaire.
BRUMALBru"mal, a. Etym: [L. brumalis, fr. bruma winter: cf. F. brumal.]
Defn: Of or pertaining to winter. "The brumal solstice." Sir T.Browne.
BRUMEBrume, n. Etym: [F. brume winter season, mist, L. bruma winter.]
Defn: Mist; fog; vapors. "The drifting brume." Longfellow.
BRUMMAGEM Brum"ma*gem, a. Etym: [Birmingham (formerly Bromwycham), Eng., "the great mart and manufactory of gilt toys, cheap jewelry," etc.]
Defn: Counterfeit; gaudy but worthless; sham. [Slang] "TheseBrummagem gentry." Lady D. Hardy.
BRUMOUSBru"mous, a.
Defn: Foggy; misty.
BRUNBrun, n. Etym: [See Broun a brook.]
Defn: Same as Brun, a brook. [Scot.]
BRUNETTE Bru*nette", n. Etym: [F. brunet, brunette, brownish, dim. of brun, brune, brown, fr. OHG. br. See Brown, a.]
Defn: A girl or woman with a somewhat brown or dark complexion. — a.
Defn: Having a dark tint.
BRUNION Brun"ion, n. Etym: [F. brugnon (cf. It. brugna, prugna), fr. L. prunum. See Prune, n.]
Defn: A nectarine.
BRUNONIANBru*no"ni*an, a.
Defn: Pertaining to, or invented by, Brown; — a term applied to a system of medicine promulgated in the 18th century by John Brown, of Scotland, the fundamental doctrine of which was, that life is a state of excitation produced by the normal action of external agents upon the body, and that disease consists in excess or deficiency of excitation.
BRUNSWICK BLACKBruns"wick black`.
Defn: See Japan black.
BRUNSWICK GREENBruns"wick green`. Etym: [G. Braunschweiger grün, first made atBrunswick, in Germany.]
Defn: An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed.
BRUNT Brunt, n. Etym: [OE. brunt, bront, fr. Icel. bruna to rush; cf. Icel. brenna to burn. Cf. Burn, v. t.]
1. The heat, or utmost violence, of an onset; the strength or greatest fury of any contention; as, the brunt of a battle.
2. The force of a blow; shock; collision. "And heavy brunt of cannon ball." Hudibras. It is instantly and irrecoverably scattered by our first brunt with some real affair of common life. I. Taylor.
BRUSHBrush, n. Etym: [OE. brusche, OF. broche, broce, brosse, brushwood,F. brosse brush, LL. brustia, bruscia, fr. OHG. brusta, brust,bristle, G. borste bristle, bürste brush. See Bristle, n., and cf.Browse.]
1. An instrument composed of bristles, or other like material, set in a suitable back or handle, as of wood, bone, or ivory, and used for various purposes, as in removing dust from clothes, laying on colors, etc. Brushes have different shapes and names according to their use; as, clothes brush, paint brush, tooth brush, etc.
2. The bushy tail of a fox.
3. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A tuft of hair on the mandibles.
4. Branches of trees lopped off; brushwood.
5. A thicket of shrubs or small trees; the shrubs and small trees in a wood; underbrush.
6. (Elec.)
Defn: A bundle of flexible wires or thin plates of metal, used to conduct an electrical current to or from the commutator of a dynamo, electric motor, or similar apparatus.
7. The act of brushing; as, to give one's clothes a brush; a rubbing or grazing with a quick motion; a light touch; as, we got a brush from the wheel as it passed. [As leaves] have with one winter's brush Fell from their boughts. Shak.
8. A skirmish; a slight encounter; a shock or collision; as, to have a brush with an enemy. Let grow thy sinews till their knots be strong, And tempt not yet the brushes of the war. Shak.
9. A short contest, or trial, of speed. Let us enjoy a brush across the country. Cornhill Mag. Electrical brush, a form of the electric discharge characterized by a brushlike appearance of luminous rays diverging from an electrified body.
BRUSHBrush, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Brushed; p. pr. & vb. n. Brushing.] Etym:[OE. bruschen; cf. F. brosser. See Brush, n.]
1. To apply a brush to, according to its particular use; to rub, smooth, clean, paint, etc., with a brush. "A' brushes his hat o' mornings." Shak.
2. To touch in passing, or to pass lightly over, as with a brush. Some spread their sailes, some with strong oars sweep The waters smooth, and brush the buxom wave. Fairfax. Brushed with the kiss of rustling wings. Milton.
3. To remove or gather by brushing, or by an act like that of brushing, or by passing lightly over, as wind; — commonly with off. As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed With raven's feather from unwholesome fen. Shak. And from the boughts brush off the evil dew. Milton. To brush aside, to remove from one's way, as with a brush. — To brush away, to remove, as with a brush or brushing motion. — To brush up, to paint, or make clean or bright with a brush; to cleanse or improve; to renew. You have commissioned me to paint your shop, and I have done my best to brush you up like your neighbors. Pope.
BRUSHBrush, v. i.
Defn: To move nimbly in haste; to move so lightly as scarcely to be perceived; as, to brush by. Snatching his hat, he brushed off like the wind. Goldsmith.
BRUSHERBrush"er, n.
Defn: One who, or that which, brushes.
BRUSHINESSBrush"i*ness, n.
Defn: The quality of resembling a brush; brushlike condition; shagginess. Dr. H. More.
BRUSHINGBrush"ing, a.
1. Constructed or used to brush with; as a brushing machine.
2. Brisk; light; as, a brushing gallop.
BRUSHITEBrush"ite, n. Etym: [From George J.Brush, an American mineralogist.](Min.)
Defn: A white or gray crystalline mineral consisting of the acid phosphate of calcium.
BRUSH TURKEYBrush" tur`key. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A large, edible, gregarious bird of Australia (Talegalla Lathami) of the family Megapodidæ. Also applied to several allied species of New Guinea.
Note: The brush turkeys live in the "brush," and construct a common nest by collecting a large heap of decaying vegetable matter, which generates heat sufficient to hatch the numerous eggs (sometimes half a bushel) deposited in it by the females of the flock.
BRUSH WHEELBrush" wheel`.
1. A wheel without teeth, used to turn a similar one by the friction of bristles or something brushlike or soft attached to the circumference.
2. A circular revolving brush used by turners, lapidaries, silversmiths, etc., for polishing.
BRUSHWOODBrush"wood, n.
1. Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs.
2. Small branches of trees cut off.
BRUSHYBrush"y, a.
Defn: Resembling a brush; shaggy; rough.
BRUSKBrusk, a.
Defn: Same as Brusque.
BRUSQUE Brusque, a. Etym: [F. brusque, from It. brusco brusque, tart, sour, perh. fr. L. (vitis) labrusca wild (vine); or cf. OHG. bruttisc grim, fr. brutti terror.]
Defn: Rough and prompt in manner; blunt; abrupt; hluff; as, a brusque man; a brusque style.
BRUSQUENESSBrusque"ness, n.
Defn: Quality of being brusque; roughness joined with promptness; blutness. Brit. Quar.
BRUSSELSBrus"sels, n.
Defn: A city of Belgium, giving its name to a kind of carpet, a kind of lace, etc. Brussels carpet, a kind of carpet made of worsted yarn fixed in a foundation web of strong linen thread. The worsted, which alone shows on the upper surface in drawn up in loops to form the pattern. — Brussels ground, a name given to the handmade ground of real Brussels lace. It is very costly because of the extreme fineness of the threads. — Brussels lace, an expensive kind of lace of several varieties, originally made in Brussels; as, Brussels point, Brussels ground, Brussels wire ground. — Brussels net, an imitation of Brussels ground, made by machinery. — Brussels point. See Point lace. — Brussels sprouts (Bot.), a plant of the Cabbage family, which produces, in the axils of the upright stem, numerous small green heads, or "sprouts," each a cabbage in miniature, of one or two inches in diameter; the thousand-headed cabbage. — Brussels wire ground, a ground for lace, made of silk, with meshes partly straight and partly arched.
BRUSTLEBrus"tle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Brustled; p. pr. & vb. n. Brustling.]Etym: [OE. brustlien and brastlien, AS. brastlian, fr. berstan toburst, akin to G. prasseln to crackle. See Burst, v. i.]
1. To crackle; to rustle, as a silk garment. [Obs.] Gower.
2. To make a show of fireceness or defiance; to bristle. [Obs.] To brustle up, to bristle up. [Obs.] Otway.
BRUSTLEBrus"tle, n.
Defn: A bristle. [Obs. or Prov.] Chaucer.
BRUTBrut, v. i. Etym: [F. brouter, OF. brouster. See Browse, n.]
Defn: To browse. [Obs.] Evelyn.
BRUTBrut, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: See Birt.
BRUTABru"ta, n. Etym: [NL., neuter pl., fr. L. brutus heavy, stupid.](Zoöl.)
Defn: See Edentata.
BRUTALBru"tal, a. Etym: [Cf. F. brutal. See Brute, a.]
1. Of or pertaining to a brute; as, brutal nature. "Above the rest of brutal kind." Milton.
2. Like a brute; savage; cruel; inhuman; brutish; unfeeling; merciless; gross; as, brutal manners. "Brutal intemperance." Macaulay.
BRUTALISMBru"tal*ism, n.
Defn: Brutish quality; brutality.
BRUTALITYBru*tal"i*ty, n.; pl. Brutalities. Etym: [Cf. F. brutalité.]
1. The quality of being brutal; inhumanity; savageness; pitilessness.
2. An inhuman act. The . . . brutalities exercised in war. Brougham.
BRUTALIZATIONBru`tal*i*za"tion, n.
Defn: The act or process of making brutal; state of being brutalized.
BRUTALIZEBru"tal*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Brutalized; p. pr. & vb. n.Brutalizing.] Etym: [Cf. F. brutaliser.]
Defn: To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.
BRUTALIZEBru"tal*ize, v. i.
Defn: To become brutal, inhuman, barbarous, or coarse and beasty.[R.]He mixed . . . with his countrymen, brutalized with them in theirhabits and manners. Addison.
BRUTALLYBru"tal*ly, adv.
Defn: In a brutal manner; cruelly.
BRUTE Brute, a. Etym: [F. brut, nasc., brute, fem., raw, rough, rude, brutish, L. brutus stupid, irrational: cf. It. & Sp. bruto.]
1. Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.
2. Not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute beast;the brute creation.A creature . . . not prone And brute as other creatures, but enduedWith sanctity of reason. Milton.
3. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, a brute beast. Hence:Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless; as, bruteviolence. Macaulay.The influence of capital and mere brute labor. Playfair.
4. Having the physical powers predominating over the mental; coarse; unpolished; unintelligent. A great brute farmer from Liddesdale. Sir W. Scott.
5. Rough; uncivilized; unfeeling. [R.]
BRUTEBrute, n.
1. An animal destitute of human reason; any animal not human; esp. a quadruped; a beast. Brutes may be considered as either aëral, terrestrial, aquatic, or amphibious. Locke.
2. A brutal person; a savage in heart or manners; as unfeeling or coarse person. An ill-natured brute of a husband. Franklin.
Syn.— See Beast.
BRUTEBrute, v. t. Etym: [For bruit.]
Defn: To report; to bruit. [Obs.]
BRUTELYBrute"ly, adv.
Defn: In a rude or violent manner.
BRUTENESSBrute"ness, n.
1. Brutality. [Obs.] Spenser.
2. Insensibility. "The bruteness of nature." Emerson.
BRUTIFYBru"ti*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Brutified; p. pr. & vb. n.Brutifying.] Etym: [Brute + -fy: cf. F. brutifier.]
Defn: To make like a brute; to make senseless, stupid, or unfeeling;to brutalize.Any man not quite brutified and void of sense. Barrow.
BRUTINGBru"ting, n.
Defn: Browsing. [Obs.] Evelyn.
BRUTISHBru"tish, a.
Defn: Pertaining to, or resembling, a brute or brutes; of a cruel, gross, and stupid nature; coarse; unfeeling; unintelligent. O, let all provocation Take every brutish shape it can devise. Leigh Hunt. Man may . . . render himself brutish, but it is in vain that he would seek to take the rank and density of the brute. I. Taylor.
Syn.— Insensible; stupid; unfeeling; savage; cruel; brutal; barbarous;inhuman; ferocious; gross; carnal; sensual; bestial.— Bru"tish*ly, adv.— Bru"tish*ness, n.
BRUTISMBru"tism, n.
Defn: The nature or characteristic qualities or actions of a brute; extreme stupidity, or beastly vulgarity.
BRYOLOGICALBry*o*log"i*cal, a.
Defn: Relating to bryology; as, bryological studies.
BRYOLOGISTBry*ol"o*gist, n.
Defn: One versed in bryology.
BRYOLOGYBry*ol"o*gy, n. Etym: [Gr. -logy.]
Defn: That part of botany which relates to mosses.
BRYONINBry"o*nin, n. (Chem.)
Defn: A bitter principle obtained from the root of the bryony (Bryonia alba and B. dioica). It is a white, or slightly colored, substance, and is emetic and cathartic.
BRYONYBry"o*ny, n. Etym: [L. bryonia, Gr. (Bot.)
Defn: The common name of several cucurbitaceous plants of the genus Bryonia. The root of B. alba (rough or white bryony) and of B. dioica is a strong, irritating cathartic. Black bryony, a plant (Tamus communis) so named from its dark glossy leaves and black root; black bindweed.
BRYOPHYTABry*oph"y*ta, n. pl.
Defn: See Cryptogamia.
BRYOZOABry`o*zo"a, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A class of Molluscoidea, including minute animals which by budding form compound colonies; — called also Polyzoa.
Note: They are often coralike in form and appearance, each small cell containing an individual zooid. Other species grow in delicate, flexible, branched forms, resembling moss, whence the name. Some are found in fresh water, but most are marine. The three principal divisions are Ectoprocta, Entoprocta, and Pterobranchia. See Cyclostoma, Chilostoma, and Phylactolema.
BRYOZOANBry`o*zo"an, a. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to the Bryozoa.— n.
Defn: One of the Bryozoa.
BRYOZOUMBry`o*zo"um, n. Etym: [NL. See Bryozoa.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: An individual zooid of a bryozoan coralline, of which there may be two or more kinds in a single colony. The zooecia usually have a wreath of tentacles around the mouth, and a well developed stomach and intestinal canal; but these parts are lacking in the other zooids (Avicularia, Ooecia, etc.).
BUANSUAHBu`an*su"ah, n. Etym: [Native name.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: The wild dog of northern India (Cuon primævus), supposed by some to be an ancestral species of the domestic dog.
BUATBu"at, n. Etym: [Scot., of uncertain origin.]
Defn: A lantern; also, the moon. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.
BUBBub, n.
Defn: Strong malt liquor. [Cant] Prior.
BUBBub, n. Etym: [Cf. 2d Bubby.]
Defn: A young brother; a little boy; — a familiar term of address of a small boy.
BUBBub, v. t. Etym: [Abbrev. from Bubble.]
Defn: To throw out in bubbles; to bubble. [Obs.] Sackville.
BUBALEBu"ba*le, n. Etym: [Cf. F. bubale. See Buffalo, n.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A large antelope (Alcelaphus bubalis) of Egypt and the Desert of Sahara, supposed by some to be the fallow deer of the Bible.
BUBALINEBu"ba*line, a. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Resembling a buffalo. Bubaline antelope (Zoöl.), the bubale.
BUBBLE Bub"ble, n. Etym: [Cf. D. bobbel, Dan. boble, Sw. bubbla. Cf. Blob, n.]
1. A thin film of liquid inflated with air or gas; as, a soap bubble; bubbles on the surface of a river. Beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow, Like bubbles in a late disturbed stream. Shak.
2. A small quantity of air or gas within a liquid body; as, bubbles rising in champagne or aërated waters.
3. A globule of air, or globular vacuum, in a transparent solid; as, bubbles in window glass, or in a lens.
4. A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
5. The globule of air in the spirit tube of a level.
6. Anything that wants firmness or solidity; that which is more specious than real; a false show; a cheat or fraud; a delusive scheme; an empty project; a dishonest speculation; as, the South Sea bubble. Then a soldier . . . Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. Shak.
7. A person deceived by an empty project; a gull. [Obs.] "Ganny's a cheat, and I'm a bubble." Prior.
BUBBLEBub"ble, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bubbled (; p. pr. & vb. n. Bubbling (.]Etym: [Cf. D. bobbelen, Dan. boble. See Bubble, n.]
1. To rise in bubbles, as liquids when boiling or agitated; to contain bubbles. The milk that bubbled in the pail. Tennyson.
2. To run with a gurdling noise, as if forming bubbles; as, a bubbling stream. Pope.
3. To sing with a gurgling or warbling sound. At mine ear Bubbled the nightingale and heeded not. Tennyson.
BUBBLERBub"bler, v. t.
Defn: To cheat; to deceive.She has bubbled him out of his youth. Addison.The great Locke, who was seldom outwitted by false sounds, wasnevertheless bubbled here. Sterne.
BUBBLERBub"bler, n.
1. One who cheats. All the Jews, jobbers, bubblers, subscribers, projectors, etc. Pope.
2. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A fish of the Ohio river; — so called from the noise it makes.
BUBBLE SHELLBub"ble shell`. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A marine univalve shell of the genus Bulla and allied genera, belonging to the Tectibranchiata.
BUBBLING JOCKBub"bling Jock` (Zoöl.)
Defn: The male wild turkey, the gobbler; — so called in allusion to its notes.
BUBBLYBub"bly, a.
Defn: Abounding in bubbles; bubbling. Nash.
BUBBY Bub"by (bûb"by), n. Etym: [Cf. Prov. G. bübbi, or It. poppa, Pr. popa, OF. poupe, a woman's breast.]
Defn: A woman's breast. [Low]
BUBBYBub"by, n. Etym: [A corruption of brother.]
Defn: Bub; — a term of familiar or affectionate address to a small boy.
BUBO Bu"bo, n.; pl. Buboes (. Etym: [LL. bubo the groin, a swelling in the groin, Gr. (Med.)
Defn: An inflammation, with enlargement, of a limphatic gland, esp. in the groin, as in syphilis.
BUBONICBu*bon"ic, a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to a bubo or buboes; characterized by buboes.
BUBONOCELEBu*bon"o*cele, n. Etym: [Gr. bubonocèle.] (Med.)
Defn: An inguinal hernia; esp. that incomplete variety in which the hernial pouch descends only as far as the groin, forming a swelling there like a bubo.
BUBUKLEBu"bu*kle, n.
Defn: A red pimple. [R.] Shak.
BUCCALBuc"cal, a. Etym: [L. bucca cheek: cf. F. buccal.] (Anat.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to the mouth or cheeks.
BUCCANBuc"can, n. [F. boucan. See Buccaneer.]
1.
Defn: A wooden frame or grid for roasting, smoking, or drying meat over fire.
2. A place where meat is smoked.
3. Buccaned meat.
BUCCANBuc"can, v. t. [F. boucaner. See Buccaneer.]
Defn: To expose (meat) in strips to fire and smoke upon a buccan.
BUCCANEER Buc`ca*neer", n. Etym: [F. boucanier, fr. boucaner to smoke or broil meat and fish, to hunt wild beasts for their skins, boucan a smoking place for meat or fish, gridiron for smoking: a word of American origin.]
Defn: A robber upon the sea; a pirate; — a term applied especially to the piratical adventurers who made depredations on the Spaniards in America in the 17th and 18th centuries. [Written also bucanier.]
Note: Primarily, one who dries and smokes flesh or fish after the manner of the Indians. The name was first given to the French settlers in Hayti or Hispaniola, whose business was to hunt wild cattle and swine.
BUCCANEERBuc`ca*neer", v. i.
Defn: To act the part of a buccaneer; to live as a piratical adventurer or sea robber.
BUCCANEERISHBuc`ca*neer"ish, a.
Defn: Like a buccaneer; piratical.
BUCCINALBuc"ci*nal, a. Etym: [L. bucina a crooked horn or trumpet.]
Defn: Shaped or sounding like a trumpet; trumpetlike.
BUCCINATOR Buc`ci*na"tor, n. Etym: [L., a trumpeter, fr. bucinare to sound the trumpet.] (Anat.)
Defn: A muscle of the cheek; — so called from its use in blowing wind instruments.
BUCCINOIDBuc"ci*noid, a. Etym: [Buccinum + -oid.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: Resembling the genus Buccinum, or pertaining to the Buccinidæ, a family of marine univalve shells. See Whelk, and Prosobranchiata.
BUCCINUMBuc"ci*num, n. Etym: [L., a trumpet, a trumpet shell.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A genus of large univalve mollusks abundant in the arctic seas.It includes the common whelk (B. undatum).
BUCENTAURBu*cen"taur, n. Etym: [Gr.
1. A fabulous monster, half ox, half man.
2. Etym: [It. bucentoro.]
Defn: The state barge of Venice, used by the doge in the ceremony of espousing the Adriatic.
BUCEPHALUSBu*ceph"a*lus, n. [L., fr. Gr. , lit., ox-headed; ox + head.]
1.
Defn: The celebrated war horse of Alexander the Great.
2. Hence, any riding horse. [Jocose] Sir W. Scott.
BUCEROSBu"ce*ros, n. Etym: [Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A genus of large perching birds; the hornbills.
BUCHOLZITEBuch"ol*zite, n. Etym: [So called from Bucholz, a German chemist.](Min.)
Defn: Same as Fibrolite.
BUCHUBu"chu, n. (Bot.)
Defn: A South African shrub (Barosma) with small leaves that are dotted with oil dlands; also, the leaves themselves, which are used in medicine for diseases of the urinary organs, etc. Several species furnish the leaves.
BUCKBuck, n. Etym: [Akin to LG. büke, Dan. byg, Sw. byk, G. bauche: cf.It. bucato, Prov. Sp. bugada, F. buée.]
1. Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
2. The cloth or clothes soaked or washed. [Obs.] Shak.
BUCKBuck, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bucked; p. pr. & vb. n. Bucking.] Etym:[OE. bouken; akin to LG. büken, Dan. byge, Sw. byka, G. bauchen,beuchen; cf. OF. buer. Cf. the preceding noun.]
1. To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; — a process in bleaching.
2. To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
3. (Mining)
Defn: To break up or pulverize, as ores.
BUCKBuck, n. Etym: [OE. buk, bucke, AS. bucca, bua, he-goat; akin to D.bok, OHG. pocch, G. bock, Ir. boc, W. bwch, Corn. byk; cf. Zend b,Skr. bukka. *256. Cf. Butcher, n.]
1. The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.
Note: A male fallow deer is called a fawn in his first year; a pricket in his second; a sorel in his third; a sore in his fourth; a buck of the first head in his fifth; and a great buck in his sixth. The female of the fallow deer is termed a doe. The male of the red deer is termed a stag or hart and not a buck, and the female is called a hind. Brande & C.
2. A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy. The leading bucks of the day. Thackeray.
3. A male Indian or negro. [Colloq. U.S.]
Note: The word buck is much used in composition for the names of antelopes; as, bush buck, spring buck. Blue buck. See under Blue. — Water buck, a South African variety of antelope (Kobus ellipsiprymnus). See Illust. of Antelope.
BUCKBuck, v. i.
1. To copulate, as bucks and does.
2. To spring with quick plunging leaps, descending with the fore legs rigid and the head held as low down as possible; — said of a vicious horse or mule.
BUCKBuck, v. t.
1. (Mil.)
Defn: To subject to a mode of punishment which consists in tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.
2. To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2. The brute that he was riding had nearly bucked him out of the saddle. W. E. Norris.
BUCKBuck, n.
Defn: A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck. Buck saw, a saw set in a frame and used for sawing wood on a sawhorse.
BUCKBuck, n. Etym: [See Beech, n.]
Defn: The beech tree. [Scot.] Buck mast, the mast or fruit of the beech tree. Johnson.
BUCK-BASKETBuck"-bas`ket, n. Etym: [See 1st Buck.]
Defn: A basket in which clothes are carried to the wash. Shak.
BUCK BEANBuck" bean`. (Bot.)
Defn: A plant (Menyanthes trifoliata) which grows in moist and boggy places, having racems of white or reddish flowers and intensely bitter leaves, sometimes used in medicine; marsh trefoil; — called also bog bean.
BUCKBOARDBuck"board`, n.
Defn: A four-wheeled vehicle, having a long elastic board or frame resting on the bolsters or axletrees, and a seat or seats placed transversely upon it; — called also buck wagon.
BUCKERBuck"er, n. (Mining)
1. One who bucks ore.
2. A broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore.
BUCKERBuck"er, n.
Defn: A horse or mule that bucks.
BUCKET Buck"et, n. Etym: [OE. boket; cf. AS. buc pitcher, or Corn. buket tub.]
1. A vessel for drawing up water from a well, or for catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other liquids. The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well. Wordsworth.
2. A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc.
3. (Mach.)
Defn: One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve; also, a float of a paddle wheel.
4. The valved piston of a lifting pump. Fire bucket, a bucket for carrying water to put out fires. — To kick the bucket, to die. [Low]
BUCKET SHOPBuck"et shop`.
Defn: An office or a place where facilities are given for betting small sums on current prices of stocks, petroleum, etc. [Slang, U.S.]
BUCKETYBuck"et*y, n. Etym: [A corruption of buckwheat.]
Defn: Paste used by weavers to dress their webs. Buchanan.
BUCKEYEBuck"eye`, n.
1. (Bot.)
Defn: A name given to several American trees and shrubs of the samegenus (Æsculus) as the horse chestnut. The Ohio buckeye, or Fetidbuckeye, is Æsculus glabra.— Red buckeye is Æ. Pavia.— Small buckeye is Æ. paviflora.— Sweet buckeye, or Yellow buckeye, is Æ. flava.
2. A cant name for a native in Ohio. [U.S.] Buckeye State, Ohio; — so called because buckeye trees abound there.
BUCK-EYEDBuck"-eyed`, a.
Defn: Having bad or speckled eyes. "A buck-eyed horse." James White.
BUCK FEVERBuck fever.
Defn: Intense excitement at the sight of deer or other game, such as often unnerves a novice in hunting. [Colloq.]
BUCKHOUNDBuck"hound`, n.
Defn: A hound for hunting deer. Master of the buckhounds, an officer in the royal household. [Eng.]
BUCKIEBuck"ie, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A large spiral marine shell, esp. the common whelk. SeeBuccinum. [Scot.] Deil's buckie, a perverse, refractory youngster.[Slang]
BUCKINGBuck"ing, n.
1. The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching; also, the liquid used. Tomlinson.
2. A washing.
3. The process of breaking up or pulverizing ores. Bucking iron(Mining), a broad-faced hammer, used in bucking or breaking up ores.— Bucking kier (Manuf.), a large circular boiler, or kier, used inbleaching.— Bucking stool, a washing block.
BUCKISHBuck"ish, a.
Defn: Dandified; foppish.
BUCKLE Buc"kle, n. Etym: [OE. bocle buckle, boss of a shield, OF. bocle, F. boucle, boss of a shield, ring, fr. L. buccula a little cheek or mouth, dim. of bucca cheek; this boss or knob resembling a cheek.]
1. A device, usually of metal, consisting of a frame with one more movable tongues or catches, used for fastening things together, as parts of dress or harness, by means of a strap passing through the frame and pierced by the tongue.
2. A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal. Knight.
3. A curl of hair, esp. a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, thestate of being curled.Earlocks in tight buckles on each side of a lantern face. W. Irving.Lets his wig lie in buckle for a whole half year. Addison.
4. A contorted expression, as of the face. [R.] 'Gainst nature armed by gravity, His features too in buckle see. Churchill.
BUCKLEBuc"kle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Buckled; p. pr. & vb. n. Buckling.]Etym: [OE. boclen, F. boucler. See Buckle, n.]
1. To fasten or confine with a buckle or buckles; as, to buckle a harness.
2. To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted.
3. To prepare for action; to apply with vigor and earnestness; — generally used reflexively. Cartwright buckled himself to the employment. Fuller.
4. To join in marriage. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.
BUCKLEBuc"kle, v. i.
1. To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl; to kink. Buckled with the heat of the fire like parchment. Pepys.
2. To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall.
3. To yield; to give way; to cease opposing. [Obs.] The Dutch, as high as they seem, do begin to buckle. Pepys.
4. To enter upon some labor or contest; to join in close fight; tostruggle; to contend.The bishop was as able and ready to buckle with the Lord Protector ashe was with him. Latimer.In single combat thou shalt buckle with me. Shak.To buckle to, to bend to; to engage with zeal.To make our sturdy humor buckle thereto. Barrow.Before buckling to my winter's work. J. D. Forbes.
BUCKLER Buc"kler, n. Etym: [OE. bocler, OF. bocler, F. bouclier, a shield with a boss, from OF. bocle, boucle, boss. See Buckle, n.]
1. A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, worn on one of the arms (usually the left) for protecting the front of the body.
Note: In the sword and buckler play of the Middle Ages in England, the buckler was a small shield, used, not to cover the body, but to stop or parry blows.
2. (Zoöl.) (a) One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes. (b) The anterior segment of the shell of trilobites.
3. (Naut.)
Defn: A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches. Blind buckler (Naut.), a solid buckler. — Buckler mustard (Bot.), a genus of plants (Biscutella) with small bright yellow flowers. The seed vessel on bursting resembles two bucklers or shields. — Buckler thorn, a plant with seed vessels shaped like a buckler. See Christ's thorn. — Riding buckler (Naut.), a buckler with a hole for the passage of a cable.
BUCKLERBuc"kler, v. t.
Defn: To shield; to defend. [Obs.] Can Oxford, that did ever fence the right, Now buckler falsehood with a pedigree Shak.
BUCKLER-HEADEDBuc"kler-head`ed, a.
Defn: Having a head like a buckler.
BUCKLINGBuc"kling, a.
Defn: Wavy; curling, as hair. Latham.
BUCKRA Buck"ra, n. Etym: [In the language of the Calabar coast, buckra means "demon, a powerful and superior being." J.L.Wilson.]
Defn: A white man; — a term used by negroes of the African coast,West Indies, etc.
BUCKRABuck"ra, a.
Defn: White; white man's; strong; good; as, buckra yam, a white yam.
BUCKRAM Buck"ram, n. Etym: [OE. bokeram, bougeren, OF. boqueran, F. bougran, MHG. buckeram, LL. buchiranus, boquerannus, fr. MHG. boc, G. bock, goat (as being made of goat's hair), or fr. F. bouracan, by transposing the letter r. See Buck, Barracan.]
1. A coarse cloth of linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise.
Note: Buckram was formerly a very different material from that now known by the name. It was used for wearing apparel, etc. Beck (Draper's Dict. ).
2. (Bot.)
Defn: A plant. See Ramson. Dr. Prior.
BUCKRAMBuck"ram, a.
1. Made of buckram; as, a buckram suit.
2. Stiff; precise. "Buckram dames." Brooke.
BUCKRAMBuck"ram, v. t.
Defn: To strengthen with buckram; to make stiff. Cowper.
BUCK'S-HORNBuck's"-horn`, n. (Bot.)
Defn: A plant with leaves branched somewhat like a buck's horn(Plantago Coronopus); also, Lobelia coronopifolia.
BUCKSHOTBuck"shot`, n.
Defn: A coarse leaden shot, larger than swan shot, used in hunting deer and large game.
BUCKSKINBuck"skin`, n.
1. The skin of a buck.
2. A soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in color, made of deerskin.
3. A person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war. Cornwallis fought as lang's he dought, An' did the buckskins claw, man. Burns.
4. pl.
Defn: Breeches made of buckskin.I have alluded to his buckskin. Thackeray.
BUCKSTALLBuck"stall`, n.
Defn: A toil or net to take deer.
BUCKTHORNBuck"thorn`, n. (Bot.)
Defn: A genus (Rhamnus) of shrubs or trees. The shorter branches of some species terminate in long spines or thorns. See Rhamnus. Sea buckthorn, a plant of the genus Hippophaë.
BUCKTOOTHBuck"tooth`, n.
Defn: Any tooth that juts out.When he laughed, two white buckteeth protruded. Thackeray.
BUCKWHEAT Buck"wheat`, n. Etym: [Buck a beech tree + wheat; akin to D. boekweit, G. buchweizen.]
1. (Bot.)
Defn: A plant (Fagopyrum esculentum) of the Polygonum family, the seed of which is used for food.
2. The triangular seed used, when ground, for griddle cakes, etc.
BUCOLIC Bu*col"ic, a. Etym: [L. bucolicus, Gr. kal to drive: cf. F. bucolique. See Cow the animal.]
Defn: Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic.
BUCOLICBu*col"ic, n. Etym: [L. Bucolicôn poëma.]
Defn: A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil. Dryden.
BUCOLICALBu*col"ic*al, a.
Defn: Bucolic.
BUCRANIUMBu*cra"ni*um, n.; pl. L. Bucrania. Etym: [L., fr. Gr.
Defn: A sculptured ornament, representing an ox skull adorned with wreaths, etc.
BUD Bud, n. Etym: [OE. budde; cf. D. bot, G. butze, butz, the core of a fruit, bud, LG. butte in hagebutte, hainbutte, a hip of the dog-rose, or OF. boton, F. bouton, bud, button, OF. boter to bud, push; all akin to E. beat. See Button.]
1. (Bot.)
Defn: A small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves, flowers, or stems; an undeveloped branch or flower.
2. (Biol.)
Defn: A small protuberance on certain low forms of animals and vegetables which develops into a new organism, either free or attached. See Hydra. Bud moth (Zoöl.), a lepidopterous insect of several species, which destroys the buds of fruit trees; esp. Tmetocera ocellana and Eccopsis malana on the apple tree.
BUDBud, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Budded; p. pr. & vb. n. Budding.]
1. To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does, into a flower or shoot.
2. To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
3. To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise; as, a budding virgin. Shak.
Syn.— To sprout; germinate; blossom.
BUDBud, v. t.
Defn: To graft, as a plant with another or into another, by inserting a bud from the one into an opening in the bark of the other, in order to raise, upon the budded stock, fruit different from that which it would naturally bear. The apricot and the nectarine may be, and usually are, budded upon the peach; the plum and the peach are budded on each other. Farm. Dict.
BUDDHABud"dha, n. Etym: [Skr. buddha wise, sage, fr. budh to know.]
Defn: The title of an incarnation of self-abnegation, virtue, and wisdom, or a deified religious teacher of the Buddhists, esp. Gautama Siddartha or Sakya Sinha (or Muni), the founder of Buddhism.
BUDDHISMBud"dhism, n.
Defn: The religion based upon the doctrine originally taught by the Hindoo sage Gautama Siddartha, surnamed Buddha, "the awakened or enlightened," in the sixth century b.c., and adopted as a religion by the greater part of the inhabitants of Central and Eastern Asia and the Indian Islands. Buddha's teaching is believed to have been atheistic; yet it was characterized by elevated humanity and morality. It presents release from existence (a beatific enfranchisement, Nirvâna) as the greatest good. Buddhists believe in transmigration of souls through all phases and forms of life. Their number was estimated in 1881 at 470,000,000.
BUDDHISTBud"dhist, n.
Defn: One who accepts the teachings of Buddhism.
BUDDHISTBud"dhist, a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to Buddha, Buddhism, or the Buddhists.
BUDDHISTICBud*dhis"tic, a.
Defn: Same as Buddhist, a.
BUDDINGBud"ding, n.
1. The act or process of producing buds.
2. (Biol.)
Defn: A process of asexual reproduction, in which a new organism or cell is formed by a protrusion of a portion of the animal or vegetable organism, the bud thus formed sometimes remaining attached to the parent stalk or cell, at other times becoming free; gemmation. See Hydroidea.
3. The act or process of ingrafting one kind of plant upon another stock by inserting a bud under the bark.
BUDDLE Bud"dle, n. Etym: [Prov. E., to cleanse ore, also a vessel for this purpose; cf. G. butteln to shake.] (Mining)
Defn: An apparatus, especially an inclined trough or vat, in which stamped ore is concentrated by subjecting it to the action of rynning water so as to wash out the lighter and less valuable portions.
BUDDLEBud"dle, v. i. (Mining)
Defn: To wash ore in a buddle.
BUDE BURNERBude" burn`er. Etym: [See Bude light.]
Defn: A burner consisting of two or more concentric Argand burners (the inner rising above the outer) and a central tube by which oxygen gas or common air is supplied.
BUDE LIGHTBude" light`. Etym: [From Bude, in Cornwall, the residence of SirG.Gurney, the inventor.]
Defn: A light in which high illuminating power is obtained by introducing a jet of oxygen gas or of common air into the center of a flame fed with coal gas or with oil.
BUDGEBudge, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Budged; p. pr. & vb. n. Budging.] Etym:[F. bouger to stir, move (akin to Pr. bojar, bolegar, to stir, move,It. bulicare to boil, bubble), fr. L. bullire. See Boil, v. i.]
Defn: To move off; to stir; to walk away.I'll not budge an inch, boy. Shak.The mouse ne'er shunned the cat as they did budge From rascals worsethan they. Shak.
BUDGEBudge, a. Etym: [See Budge, v.]
Defn: Brisk; stirring; jocund. [Obs.] South.
BUDGEBudge, n. Etym: [OE. bouge bag, OF. boge, bouge, fr. L. bulga aleathern bag or knapsack; a Gallic word; cf. OIr. bolc, Gael. bolg.Cf. Budge, n.]
Defn: A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on; — used formerly as an edging and ornament, esp. of scholastic habits.
BUDGEBudge, a.
1. Lined with budge; hence, scholastic. "Budge gowns." Milton.
2. Austere or stiff, like scholastics. Those budge doctors of the stoic fur. Milton. Budge bachelor, one of a company of men clothed in long gowns lined with budge, who formerly accompanied the lord mayor of London in his inaugural procession. — Budge barrel (Mil.), a small copper-hooped barrel with only one head, the other end being closed by a piece of leather, which is drawn together with strings like a purse. It is used for carrying powder from the magazine to the battery, in siege or seacoast service.
BUDGENESSBudge"ness, n.
Defn: Sternness; severity. [Obs.]A Sara for goodness, a great Bellona for budgeness. Stanyhurst.
BUDGERBudg"er, n.
Defn: One who budges. Shak.
BUDGEROW budg"e*row, n. Etym: [Hindi bajra.]
Defn: A large and commodious, but generally cumbrous and sluggish boat, used for journeys on the Ganges.
BUDGET Budg"et, n. Etym: [OE. bogett, bouget, F. bougette bag, wallet, dim. of OF. boge, bouge, leather bag. See Budge, n., and cf. Bouget.]
1. A bag or sack with its contents; hence, a stock or store; an accumulation; as, a budget of inventions.
2. The annual financial statement which the British chancellor of the exchequer makes in the House of Commons. It comprehends a general view of the finances of the country, with the proposed plan of taxation for the ensuing year. The term is sometimes applied to a similar statement in other countries. To open the budget, to lay before a legislative body the financial estimates and plans of the executive government.
BUDGYBudg"y, a. Etym: [From Budge, n.]
Defn: Consisting of fur. [Obs.]
BUDLETBud"let, n. Etym: [Bud + -let.]
Defn: A little bud springing from a parent bud.We have a criterion to distinguish one bud from another, or theparent bud from the numerous budlets which are its offspring. E.Darwin.
BUFFBuff, n. Etym: [OE. buff, buffe, buff, buffalo, F. buffle buffalo.See Buffalo.]
1. A sort of leather, prepared from the skin of the buffalo, dressed with oil, like chamois; also, the skins of oxen, elks, and other animals, dressed in like manner. "A suit of buff." Shak.
2. The color to buff; a light yellow, shading toward pink, gray, or brown. A visage rough, Deformed, unfeatured, and a skin of buff. Dryden.
3. A military coat, made of buff leather. Shak.
4. (Med.)
Defn: The grayish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat. SeeBuffy coat, under Buffy, a.
5. (Mech.)
Defn: A wheel covered with buff leather, and used in polishing cutlery, spoons, etc.
6. The bare skin; as, to strip to the buff. [Colloq.] To be in buff is equivalent to being naked. Wright.
BUFFBuff, a.
1. Made of buff leather. Goldsmith.
2. Of the color of buff. Buff coat, a close, military outer garment, with short sleeves, and laced tightly over the chest, made of buffalo skin, or other thick and elastic material, worn by soldiers in the 17th century as a defensive covering. — Buff jerkin, originally, a leather waistcoat; afterward, one of cloth of a buff color. [Obs.] Nares. — Buff stick (Mech.), a strip of wood covered with buff leather, used in polishing.
BUFFBuff, v. t.
Defn: To polish with a buff. See Buff, n., 5.
BUFFBuff, v. t. Etym: [OF. bufer to cuff, buffet. See Buffet a blow.]
Defn: To strike. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
BUFFBuff, n. Etym: [See Buffet.]
Defn: A buffet; a blow; — obsolete except in the phrase "Blindman'sbuff."Nathless so sore a buff to him it lent That made him reel. Spenser.
BUFFBuff, a. Etym: [Of uncertain etymol.]
Defn: Firm; sturdy. And for the good old cause stood buff, 'Gainst many a bitter kick and cuff. Hudibras.
BUFFABuf"fa, n. fem. (Mus.) Etym: [It. See Buffoon.]
Defn: The comic actress in an opera.— a.
Defn: Comic, farcical. Aria buffa, a droll or comic air.— Opera buffa, a comic opera. See Opera bouffe.
BUFFALO Buf"fa*lo, n.; pl. Buffaloes (. Etym: [Sp. bufalo (cf. It. bufalo, F. buffle), fr. L. bubalus, bufalus, a kind of African stag or gazelle; also, the buffalo or wild ox, fr. Gr. Cow the animal, and cf. Buff the color, and Bubale.]
1. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A species of the genus Bos or Bubalus (B. bubalus), originally from India, but now found in most of the warmer countries of the eastern continent. It is larger and less docile than the common ox, and is fond of marshy places and rivers.
2. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A very large and savage species of the same genus (B. Caffer) found in South Africa; — called also Cape buffalo.
3. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Any species of wild ox.
4. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The bison of North America.
5. A buffalo robe. See Buffalo robe, below.
6. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The buffalo fish. See Buffalo fish, below. Buffalo berry (Bot.), a shrub of the Upper Missouri (Sherherdia argentea) with acid edible red berries. — Buffalo bird (Zoöl.), an African bird of the genus Buphaga, of two species. These birds perch upon buffaloes and cattle, in search of parasites. — Buffalo bug, the carpet beetle. See under Carpet. — Buffalo chips, dry dung of the buffalo, or bison, used for fuel. [U.S.] — Buffalo clover (Bot.), a kind of clover (Trifolium reflexum and T.soloniferum) found in the ancient grazing grounds of the American bison. — Buffalo cod (Zoöl.), a large, edible, marine fish (Ophiodon elongatus) of the northern Pacific coast; — called also blue cod, and cultus cod. — Buffalo fish (Zoöl.), one of several large fresh-water fishes of the family Catostomidæ, of the Mississippi valley. The red-mouthed or brown (Ictiobus bubalus), the big-mouthed or black (Bubalichthys urus), and the small-mouthed (B. altus), are among the more important species used as food. — Buffalo fly, or Buffalo gnat (Zoöl.), a small dipterous insect of the genus Simulium, allied to the black fly of the North. It is often extremely abundant in the lower part of the Mississippi valley and does great injury to domestic animals, often killing large numbers of cattle and horses. In Europe the Columbatz fly is a species with similar habits. — Buffalo grass (Bot.), a species of short, sweet grass (Buchloë dactyloides), from two to four inches high, covering the prairies on which the buffaloes, or bisons, feed. [U.S.] — Buffalo nut (Bot.), the oily and drupelike fruit of an American shrub (Pyrularia oleifera); also, the shrub itself; oilnut. — Buffalo robe, the skin of the bison of North America, prepared with the hair on; — much used as a lap robe in sleighs.
BUFFEL DUCKBuf"fel duck. Etym: [See Buffalo.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A small duck (Charitonetta albeola); the spirit duck, or butterball. The head of the male is covered with numerous elongated feathers, and thus appears large. Called also bufflehead.
BUFFERBuff"er, n. Etym: [Prop a striker. See Buffet a blow.]
1. (Mech.) (a) An elastic apparatus or fender, for deadening the jar caused by the collision of bodies; as, a buffer at the end of a railroad car. (b) A pad or cushion forming the end of a fender, which recieves the blow; — sometimes called buffing apparatus.
2. One who polishes with a buff.
3. A wheel for buffing; a buff.
4. A good-humored, slow-witted fellow; — usually said of an elderly man. [Colloq.] Dickens.
BUFFERHEADBuff"er*head`, n.
Defn: The head of a buffer, which recieves the concussion, in railroad carriages.
BUFFET Buf*fet", n. Etym: [F. buffet, LL. bufetum; of uncertain origin; perh. fr. the same source as E. buffet a blow, the root meaning to puff, hence (cf. puffed up) the idea of ostentation or display.]
1. A cupboard or set of shelves, either movable or fixed at one side of a room, for the display of plate, china, etc., a sideboard. Not when a gilt buffet's reflected pride Turns you from sound philosophy aside. Pope.
2. A counter for refreshments; a restaurant at a railroad station, or place of public gathering.
BUFFET Buf"fet, n. Etym: [OE. buffet, boffet, OF. buffet a slap in the face, a pair of bellows, fr. buffe blow, cf. F. bouffer to blow, puff; prob. akin to E. puff. For the meaning slap, blow, cf. F. soufflet a slap, souffler to blow. See Puff, v. i., and cf. Buffet sidebroad, Buffoon]
1. A blow with the hand; a slap on the face; a cuff. When on his cheek a buffet fell. Sir W. Scott.
2. A blow from any source, or that which affects like a blow, as the violence of winds or waves; a stroke; an adverse action; an affliction; a trial; adversity. Those planks of tough and hardy oak that used for yeas to brave the buffets of the Bay of Biscay. Burke. Fortune's buffets and rewards. Shak.
3. A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter. Go fetch us a light buffet. Townely Myst.
BUFFETBuf"fet, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Buffeted; p. pr. & vb. n. Buffeting.]Etym: [OE. buffeten, OF. buffeter. See the preceding noun.]
1. To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat; to cuff; to slap. They spit in his face and buffeted him. Matt. xxvi. 67.
2. To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against; as, to buffet the billows. The sudden hurricane in thunder roars, Buffets the bark, and whirls it from the shores. Broome. You are lucky fellows who can live in a dreamland of your own, instead of being buffeted about the world. W. Black.